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BIRDS of TRIANA
FIELD GUIDE
AMERICAN R OBIN
Turdus migratorius
GREAT EGRET
Casmerodius albus
MOURNING DOVE
Zenaida macroura
BLUE JAY
Cyanocitta cristata
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INTRODUCTION
Scientific Name:
Turdus migratorius.Other Possible Names:
Thrush Description:
Babies are spotted,
otherwise adults have a
gray upper body with a
brick red breast; head and
tail of males are black
and dark gray in females;
both have bright yellow
bills and white orbital
markings around the eyes.Facts: One of the first
birds to sing long morn-
ing choruses of paired
phrases of two or three
syllables that alternate in
pitch, indicating the start
of spring.
Location: Found in
North America from
extreme northern Canada
and as far south as Guate-
mala.
Diet: Insects such as
earthworms, beetles, and
grasshoppers; also eats
fruit such as pokeberries,
cherries, grapes, mistle-
toe, and the fruit of the
Sabal Palm located in the
Southern states.
1American
Robin 2Barn
Swallow
Scientific Name: Hirundo rustica. Other
Possible Names: None
listed. Description:
Upper body is glossy
steel blue with a white
underside and a chestnut
forehead, chin, and throat.
Facts: Colonizes in six to
eight pairs; nests are built
with straw and mud, and
lined with feathers;makes thousands of trips
to gather mud that is
worked into pellets and
carried to the nest in their
bills. Location: North
America, Europe, Asia,
Burma, Israel, and North-
ern Africa; also breeds
from Alaska to Canada
and south through central
Mexico; builds nests near
the ceiling on a beam or
tucked under the eaves or
in agricultural and subur-
ban areas, marshes, and
lakeshores.
Diet: Insects including
flies, aphids, beetles,
moths, mayflies, caterpil-
lars, and grasshoppers.
3Scientific Name:
Cyanocitta cristata.
Other Possible Names:
None listed. Description:
Bright blue with white
and black on wings, tail,
and facial markings.
Facts: Bold, traveling in
noisy family groups in
late summer and fall;makes a variety of sounds
a jay-jay call, a bell-like
tull-ull call, a mellow
whistled teekle, a variety
of harsh chattering notes
and growls and the
scream of the red-shoul-
dered hawk.
Location: The nest is
situated between 8-20 feet
up in a coniferous or
deciduous tree; found east
of the Rockies from
southern Canada to the
Gulf of Mexico westward.
Diet: Mostly vegetarian,
but also eats insects and
bird's eggs, small birds,
and other small vertebrae
animals.
Blue
Jay
4Scientific Name:
Cardinalis cardinalis
Other Possible Name
None listed Descripti
Males have bright red
crests, black faces, and
stout red bills; females
red with a buff-brown
tinge on crests, wings,
tails. Facts: Cardinals noted for their loud, cle
whistled songs often su
from a high treetop son
post; variations and acc
have been noted in card
songs; more states have
adopted the Northern
cardinal as their state bi
than any other bird, inc
ing Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, North CaroliOhio, Virginia, and Wes
Virginia. Location:
Found in backyards in
eastern half of the Uni
States, and from the
South, East, Midwest,
as far west as Californ
cardinals typically ma
their habitats in brushy
areas and undergrowth
edges and clearings,
parks, and residential
areas; and winter flock
can be as large as 60 to
70 individuals in areas
abundance. Diet: Up
one-third of the cardin
summer diet consists o
insects, but in winter,
percent is vegetation.
Cardinal
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5 Great
Egret
Scientific Name:
Casmerodius albus.
Other Possible Names:
Great White Heron or the
American, Common,
Large or White Egret.
Description: Great egretshave white bodies, yellow
bills, black legs and feet,
nd a wingspan greater
han 50 inches. Facts:
Nests are made of reeds
nd sticks and are often
high up in trees with as
many as five or six eggs;
n the breeding season
both males and females
xhibit long back plumes.
Location: Spends the
winter from South Caro-
ina southward and as far
north as Massachusetts in
he summer. Diet: Out-
tanding fishermen, they
tand motionless in the
water and wait for fish;
nakes, frogs, or insects.
6 Mourning
Dove
Scientific Name:
Zenaida macroura
Other Possible Names:
None listed. Description:Sandy buff color with a
pointed tail bordered in
white. Facts: Most
widely hunted and har-
vested game bird; its
name comes from its
song, a low-toned moan-
ing cooah, coo, coo, coo;
flocks are formed in
every season, except
when the birds are breed-ing, they disperse in
pairs; found in warm
climates, mourning doves
produce up to six broods
per year, the most of any
native bird; and typically
lays two eggs in a ever-
green trees. Location:
Found in a variety of
nests, including clumps of
grass in the United States,
southern Canada, and
throughout the Great
Plains in the Midwest.
Diet: Feeds primarily on
the ground, consuming
waste grain such as
wheat, buckwheat, and
weed seeds.
7 Northern
Flicker
Scientific Name:
Colaptes auratus.
Other Possible Names:Yellowhammer.
Description: Brownish
woodpecker; brown back
with dark bars and spots,
whitish or buff below with
black spots; black crescent on
breast; and white rump.
Facts: Unlike woodpeckers,
Northern flickers are unable
to drill into hardwood; they
need rotten or soft trees to build their nests. Location:
Range extends throughout
North America; also migrates
to the southern United States
and spends winters through-
out the Southwest and
Florida; lives in an assort-
ment of woodland and human
habitats near parks, mead-
ows, fields, farms, savannas,
swamps, or forests as far
north as Canada and as far
south as Central America.
Diet: Insects such as beetles,
caterpillars, and ants; eats
fruits and berries such as
apples, grapes, persimmons
and dogwood berries, poke-
berries and huckleberries;
and visits suet feeders.
References
Cornell Lab of Orni-thology Bird Source.
Retrieved August 30,
2002, from, http://
www.birdsource.org.
National Wildlife
Federation.
ENature.com.™
Retrieved August 29,
2002, from http://
www.enature.com/guides/
select_Birds.asp.
Nature of New En-
gland. Birds of New
England. Retrieved
August 29, 2002,
from http://
www.nenature.com/
Birds.htm.
United States Geo-
logical Survey, De-
partment of the
Interior. Patuxent
Wildlife Research
Center. Retrieved
August 30, 2002,
from http://www.mbr-
pwrc.usgs.gov.
This bird guide provides information that will help you identify seven of
the most common birds found in Triana, Alabama.
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Marilyn Simpson-Johnson, L.M.S.W., C.A.D.R. , Extension Urban Specialist, Family Welfare,
Alabama A&M University
Photographers: Art Today (Great Egret & Barn Swallow); Mike Danzenbaker (Northern
Flicker); Don DesJardin (Mourning Dove); Jim Roetzel (Cardinal); Brian Small (Blue Jay);
and Ann & Rob Simpson (Robin)
For more information, call your county Extension office. Look in your telephone directory under your county’s
name to find the number.
Published by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (Alabama A&M and Auburn Universities) in cooperation with the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. An Equal Opportunity Educator and Employer.
Updated December 2008; UNP-54
© 2008 by Alabama Cooperative Extension System. All rights reserved.
UNP-54
BARN SWALLOW
Hirundo rustic NORTHERN FLICKER
Colaptes auratus
CARDINAL
Cardinalis cardinalis